Drawing inspiration from the way plants breathe, a group of researchers has created a paper-based magnesium-air battery that can be used in GPS sensors or pulse oximeter sensors. Taking advantage of ...

The only thing that really matters in Washington right now is the US Botanic Garden corpse flower, which is currently releasing a noxious odor of rotting flesh into the humid air of the front ...

Olga Eysymontt will lead a class on graphite drawing for beginners from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 5, Jan. 12, Jan. 19, and Jan. 26 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens, 301 N.

From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival facade of Federal ...

When you hear the word 'artist,' you usually think of someone who paints the colorful pictures hanging in an art museum. But there's a type of artist who specializes in drawing wild plants. This is ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever since I saw the Metropolitan Museum’s stunning show of Ellsworth Kelly’s botanical drawings, I have been ogling ...

Plants have already solved a lot of the questions we ask ourselves how to solve. In a Business of Design Walk session entitled “Can Plants Give us New and Visionary Solutions to Design Problems?,” JA ...